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unusual facts about Viana, Cape Verde


Boca da Lapa

The area offers a panoramic view of the southeastern part of the plain but it is blocked by its nearest mountains and Viana, it offers a view of the island of Santa Luzia.


1700 in piracy

July 18 - In the Cape Verde islands, Emanuel Wynn's pirate ship engages and escapes HMS Poole under Capt. John Cranby; this is the first recorded piratical use of the skull and crossbones flag.

1853 Atlantic hurricane season

Meteorologist William C. Redfield first observed the season's third tropical storm south of Cape Verde on August 30, which was the first Cape Verde-type hurricane ever recorded.

Academico 83

It is based in the city of Porto Inglês, island of Maio, Cape Verde.

Achadinha de Baixo

Achadinha do Baixo (from Achada and -inha meaning little, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Axtadinha du Baxu) is a village and a stream situated near the central part of Santiago Island in Cape Verde.

Africa Humanitarian Action

AHA worked in the Viana(refugee camp) with IDPs from the provinces of Malange, Moxico and Kwanza.

Agustín Viana

Viana was part of Uruguay's youth team set ups, including the U20 squad that competed in the 2003 South American U-20 Championship held in his native Uruguay.

Bangaeira

Bangaeira (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Bangaéra), is a village located approximately 30 km northeast of the island capital of Sao Filipe and southeast of Mosteiros and is on Fogo in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde, it is the second highest village in Cape Verde.

Basque Prehistory

Some towns like La Custodia (Biana, Navarre) would become clearly romanized, while others not far away, like La Hoya, would retain their original native character fully.

Belas, Luanda

Belas is one of the seven municipalities that make up the province of Luanda, as per the new administrative division of the province (the others being, Luanda, Cazenga, Cacuaco, Viana, Icolo e Bengo and Quiçama).

Cape Verde-type hurricane

Twenty nations took part in the GATE research project in 1974, where Douglas DC-6 aircraft examined tropical waves which spawn Cape Verde hurricanes.

Carlos Correa

Gabriel Correa (Carlos Gabriel Correa Viana, born 1968), footballer

Don Kikas

2005 saw Kikas in a new career phase as he managed to round up high profile musicians to record Viagem, a double-album in that presents a diverse range of styles from kizomba and zouk to the more traditional kazukuta and kilapanga and features singers such as Cape Verde's Tito Paris and Johnny Ramos as well as countryfellows Bonga and Deusa.

Fajãzinha, Cape Verde

Fajãzinha (also in Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK and Fogo Crioulo (Djarfogo)), is a village located approximately 30 km northeast of the island capital of Sao Filipe, east of Mosteiros and north of Cova Figueira in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde and is one of the northernmost places on the island, Fajãzinha are linked with the road encircling the island.

Fernando Quejas

Fernando Quejas (1922 in Cape VerdeOctober 28, 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal) was a singer and a songwriter of Cape Verde.

Final Stroke

The shots took place in Lisbon at UZI studios and the video was produced by Vasco Viana.

Fonte Aleixo

Fonte Aleixo (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Fonti Alexu), is a village located approximately 20 km east of the island capital of Sao Filipe and southwest of Cova Figueira on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.

GD Amarantes

Grêmio Desportivo Amarantes (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: GD Amarantis, São Vicente: GD Amarantes) is a football (soccer) club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the São Vicente Island League in Cape Verde.

Gei Zantzinger

He directed and produced films about the musics of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Lesotho, South Africa, and Brittany.

Ilhéu de Sal-Rei

Ilhéu de Sal Rei (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC: Djeu d Sal Rei) is an islet located 1 km west of Sal Rei and nearly 1 km southwest of its nearest point of Boa Vista Island (which includes Praia de Chaves) in Cape Verde.

Lead Masks Case

The two men were identified as Manoel Pereira de Cruz and Miguel Jose Viana, two electronic technicians from Campos dos Goytacazes, a town several miles to the northeast of Rio de Janeiro.

Leucosyrinx verrillii

This species is found in European waters along the British Isles and the Bay of Biscay, in the Atlantic Ocean along the Azores, Cape Verde, Morocco; from North Carolina to Brazil, in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles.

Linatella caudata

This species is distributed in European waters, the Western Atlantic, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific.

Luanda Province

In 2011 Luanda Province was subdivided into seven municipalities, namely, Luanda, Belas, Cacuaco, Cazenga, Icolo e Bengo, Quiçama and Viana.

Mailó

Mailó da Graça da Cruz (born 10 January 1992 in São Vicente) simply Mailó, is a Cape Verdean footballer who plays for Leixões S.C. as a forward.

Miguel Dias

Miguel Brito dos Reis Dias (born April 1, 1968 in Santa Maria) is a retired boxer from The Netherlands, who was born on Cape Verde.

Monoplex nicobaricus

Regions where Monoplex nicobaricus is found include Aldabra, Brazil, Canaries, Cape Verde, Chagos, European waters, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Mascarene Basin and West Indies.

Monoplex tranquebaricus

This species is distributed in European waters, in the Atlantic Ocean along the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, West Africa, Gabon, Angola and in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Keys.

Monte Grande, Cape Verde

Monte Grande (Portuguese meaning large mountain, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Monti Grandi), is a village located approximately six kilometers east of the island capital of Sao Filipe and southwest of Mosteiros in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.

Niccolò Granello

He went to the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial with his half-brother Fabrizio Castello and other team members who had accompanied his stepfather from Genoa, including brothers Gian Maria and Francesco da Urbino, Francesco da Viana and others, with whom he worked continuously in the decoration of vaults and some walls of various units of the basilica and monastery of El Escorial until his death.

Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Cape Verde

Nossa Senhora do Livramento (first part, Portuguese meaning Our Lady) is a parish that covers a part of the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the island of Santo Antão in southern Cape Verde.

Pavilhão Dream Space

The Pavilhão do Dream Space is a private-owned sports arena located in Kikuxi, Viana, Luanda.

Relva, Cape Verde

Relva (also in Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK and Fogo Crioulo (Djarfogo)), is a village located approximately 40 km east of the island capital of Sao Filipe, southeast of Mosteiros and north of Cova Figueira in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.

Right of asylum

The first list, enacted in July 2005, included as "safe countries" Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Mali, Mauritius Island, India, Senegal, Mongolia, Georgia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Croatia.

Santa Isabel, Espírito Santo

As part of this program the first 39 families from North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate (then known as Rheinpreussen in German or Prússia Renana in Portuguese, today those names are only historical), arrived to Vitória on the 21 of December 1846, first they settled in Viana but in 1857 most families followed on to found Santa Isabel Colony in the 27th of January 1857.

Santo Amaro Abade

Santo Amaro Abade is a parish in the municipality of Tarrafal in the island of Santiago in southern Cape Verde.

São Filipe, Cape Verde

São Filipe (Portuguese for "Saint Philip"), or San Filipi in Cape Verdean Creole, is the city that constitutes the seat of the São Filipe Municipality on the isle of Fogo, in Cape Verde.

Sergio García de la Fuente

On 22 December 2009 he scored the side's first goal in a 4–2 victory against Argentina and, on 30 December 2013, he netted twice in a 4–1 triumph over Cape Verde.

Sinezona semicostata

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, Madeira and Cape Verde

Skywave

In June and July 1923, Guglielmo Marconi's transmissions were completed during nights on 97 meters from Poldhu Wireless Station, Cornwall, to his yacht Ellette in the Cape Verde Islands.

Timeline of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season

AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Four forms 225 nautical miles (260 miles, 415 km) south-southeast of Praia, Cape Verde.

Tom Saintfiet

On 10 October, Zimbabwe played Cape Verde in Harare in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification match, the game resulted in a 1-1 draw.

Toni Varela

Toni Santos Varela Monteiro (born 13 June 1986 in Santa Catarina, Cape Verde), simply known as Toni Varela, is a Cape Verdean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Levadiakos in the Superleague Greece.

Vanny Reis

As the official representative of Cape Verde for the 2011 Miss West Africa pageant held in Banjul, the Gambia on December 18, 2011, Vanny Reis captured the crown of Miss West Africa 2011/12, becoming the first woman to win an international pageant for Cape Verde.

Viana do Castelo

Viana do Castelo Municipality, a city and municipality in Viana do Castelo District, Portugal

Viana, Espírito Santo

In 1961, the city was made the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Viana.

Vicente Dias

Vicente Dias (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: also Bisenti Dias, Fogo Crioulo or Djarfogo: Visenti Dias), is a village located approximately 4 km from the island capital of Sao Filipe and west of Cova Figueira and is on Fogo in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde, it is the second highest village in Cape Verde.

War of the Three Sanchos

Tradition is divided over who had the victory, the Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña attributes a rout to the Navarrese and Aragonese at Viana, while the Primera crónica attributes victory to Sancho of Castile.

Zaranha Beach

Zaranha Beach (also in the Capeverdean Crioulo forms of ALUPEC or ALUPEK, the Santo Antão and the São Vicente Crioulos: Praia de Santa Mónica) is a point beach covering the northern coastline of the island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde.


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